Word: horseman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week Henderson took the Montreal train again, to clinch the deal with Montreal's Hotelman Vernon G. Cardy, who is equally well-known as a horseman. ("There is nothing so good for the inside of a man as the outside of a horse"). For an undisclosed sum, Henderson would get the majority stock in six hotels with reported assets of $15.8 million, including two of Canada's largest-Montreal's 1,100-room Mount Royal and Toronto's 1,100-room King Edward. The others: Hamilton's Royal Connaught, Windsor's Prince Edward...
Joseph A. Schumpeter has left his classes and his biographers with a problem: "In my youth," he used to say, "my ambition was to be the greatest lover in Vienna, the greatest horseman in Austria, and the greatest economist in the world. In one of those goals I have failed." The ladies who observed his continental charm and erudition and the economists who learned from his will both dispute him as their own; perhaps the horses will lose him in the long run only because they are inarticulate...
Born. To Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, 37, socialite horseman, heir to paternal (railroad) and maternal (Bromo-Seltzer) millions, and second wife Jeanne Murray Vanderbilt, 31: their second child, first son. Name: Alfred Gwynne Jr. Weight...